The 50 colleges where students earn the highest salaries

Students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, go on to earn the most money.Shutterstock

Salary potential isn't the only factor to consider when college searching — but it's nice to know which schools are paying off in the long run, particularly since tuition continues to soar.

In a 2015report, the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce looked at the four-year colleges whose students go on to earn the highest salaries. The report used the US Department of Education's College Scorecard to highlight the median earnings of students from over 1,400 colleges 10 years after starting their studies.

MIT topped the rankings, with median annual earnings of $91,600. Read on to see if your alma mater, or current school, cracked the top 50: